If your horse was close to done for the year anyway, you might have just turned him out early, to be safe.

It's possible that we will see these sorts of cards with short fields and less races for the rest of the fall meeting. It's unfortunate, but if some owners pulled their horses off of the Hawthorne backside, I understand completely.

Probably not a ton of horses have shipped out, mostly because you can't (at least not to most alternative racing sites). However, nobody will want to ship in, and Barn A is in lock-down, so the racing population is pretty limited. Saturday is a decent card--the two IL-bred stakes have a bunch of solid local horses.

hopefully people can and will start shipping horses back in soon, hoosier is almost over and a fair amount of horses from there should be coming here. on the flip side people will start shipping to the fairgrounds and tampa within a month

I love Hawthorne, but I cant win for the life of me. Plenty of prices, but I think I'd be better off without a program and just picking numbers. Not sure if its my lack of skill handicapping or lack of talent on the track. I try to bet local, but its getting ugly.

If I was a conspiracy theorist, I might be looking for "arson" suspects loyal to some entity trying to put Hawthorne out of business. This could not have come at a worse juncture.

I'm trying very hard to not entertain such thoughts, because they are disgusting and virtually incomprehensible. Anyone who would intentionally inflict disease on innocent horses will surely rot in hell.

If y'all would just take a moment to do a search on EHV-1, you wouldn't need to come up with complicated conspiracy theories about its spread. Kind of sad that so many folks with so many computer skills don't look for information that is so readily available.

This article is concise and easy to read. One interesting paragraph states:Without a doubt, the biggest problem with EHV-1 is that once horses have been infected they can become latent carriers of the virus for the rest of their life. Although latently infected horses are no longer sick or shedding the virus, they carry the virus and can spontaneously begin shedding it during periods of stress. The intermittent shedding by carrier horses is thought to be the source of sporadic outbreaks of the disease, including closed herds where no new horses have been introduced. Elimination of EHV-1 from a herd is virtually impossible because of the presence of latently infected animals. However, a good strategy to reduce the incidence of EHV-1 is the combination of a good vaccination program in conjunction with the implementation of an effective preventive herd-management program.

If y'all would just take a moment to do a search on EHV-1, you wouldn't need to come up with complicated conspiracy theories about its spread. Kind of sad that so many folks with so many computer skills don't look for information that is so readily available.

Kind of sad that so many Forum members (esp. noobs ) continue to read without fully comprehending what has been written.

There was no instant need to research how EHV-1 is transmitted: a possible conspiracy issue was raised ever-so-lightly, and immediately dismissed...and anyway, what you found doesn't really prove or disprove much.

The real point was: as much as we might delight in pointing fingers in the ongoing internecine battles between AP and Hawthorne, the idea that this EHV-1 outbreak could be the result of some sort of skullduggery is simply too horrible to contemplate. It didn't need to be examined further.

hopefully people can and will start shipping horses back in soon, hoosier is almost over and a fair amount of horses from there should be coming here. on the flip side people will start shipping to the fairgrounds and tampa within a month

Based on recent events, it's not likely any horses are moving in or out in the near future.

Kind of sad that so many Forum members (esp. noobs ) continue to read without fully comprehending what has been written.

There was no instant need to research how EHV-1 is transmitted: a possible conspiracy issue was raised ever-so-lightly, and immediately dismissed...and anyway, what you found doesn't really prove or disprove much.

The real point was: as much as we might delight in pointing fingers in the ongoing internecine battles between AP and Hawthorne, the idea that this EHV-1 outbreak could be the result of some sort of skullduggery is simply too horrible to contemplate. It didn't need to be examined further.

Anyone who took it at all seriously, even one light iota, wasn't thinking too hard.